The National Music Of The World
Styles & Characteristics Of Regional Music With Sheet Music Examples - Online Book
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National Music of the World. |
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to his second Pianoforte Trio, and more recently still to M. Felicicn David, in his 'Lalla Rookh '-■■ who has therefore been bitterly assailed as a plagiarist from Mendelssohn.
In another respect, the Spanish dances arc peculiar : proving themselves akin to the spasmodic vocal music characterised awhile since, and gaining character from pauses, syncopations, interruptions of rhythm; such as the great school of South German waltz composers—Lanner, Strauss, Labitzky, and others -have turned to such admirable account.
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To close this section of the inquiry in hand, a definition may be ventured—to wit, that in the National Music of Spain, whether vocal or instrumental, Eastern forms and influences are to be traced; and that singularly litile progress has been made in the employment of these by the free musicians of the Peninsula, as distinguished from the 'strict' ones who have wrought daily and ineffec- |
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